#comet 12P

[blasteffect]

Comet 12P

Potograph taken in Pons-Brooks on the evening of March 16th. The comet is still 151 million miles away and slowly getting closer. The comet is also slowly brightening but also getting lower in the sky after sunset making it more difficult to capture. It will continue to get closer to the Sun over the next few weeks and become more difficult to see.

There was only about 40 mins from the start of darkness after sunset to when the comet set in the northeast. The comet is now magnitude 5, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it.

Courtesy: Stars Over Bucks

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024

[spacewonder19]

Intriguing Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks © Michael Jäger

[traverse-our-universe]

Comet Pons-Brooks by Petr Horálek

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over a week in April 2024 // Thomas Rox

[hermistslaton]

What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

[astronerdscorner]

Such a long journey

Every 71 years visits this comet called 12P Pons Brooks the inner solar system and passes the sun. At the moment he is close to the sun which leads to its Coma and tail.

I capture it with 51 frames each exposed for 30s.

[ton-618-ton-618]

2024 June 4

A dark star filled sky is shown with the wisps extending the length of the image. The wisps are the two tails of Comet 12P. A particularly bright star is visible near the bottom of the frame.

Comet Pons-Brooks Develops Opposing Tails

Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri & Lukas Demetz

Explanation: Why does Comet Pons-Brooks now have tails pointing in opposite directions? The most spectacular tail is the blue-glowing ion tail that is visible flowing down the image. The ion tail is pushed directly out from the Sun by the solar wind. On the upper right is the glowing central coma of Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks. Fanning out from the coma, mostly to the left, is the comet's dust tail. Pushed out and slowed down by the pressure of sunlight, the dust tail tends to trail the comet along its orbit and, from some viewing angles, can appear opposite to the ion tail. The distant, bright star Alpha Leporis is seen at the bottom of the featured image captured last week from Namibia. Two days ago, the comet passed its closest to the Earth and is now best visible from southern skies as it dims and glides back to the outer Solar System.

[the-maddest-robot]

A photo of the comet 12P ponce-brook, taken from my bedroom window. In the middle ages, comets were regarded as omens of great change, generally bad ones. It's only after the discovery of their periodic return (during the 15's to 16's hundred) and later discovery of their nature (big balls of mostly ice and some rocks orbiting the sun) that comets stoped to be feared. Despite that, I still find them to be awe-inspiring.

For those interested, this comet is currently visible with a good pair of binoculars or a telescope if you look in the Andromeda constellation (more information on positions and visibility: https://theskylive.com/12p-info) I would have taken more pictures or a better one if the clouds had not been consistently thwarting any attempts at observation in the last week and a half.

[alascene]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks captured April 4th of this year

135mm Rokinon lens

Canon 90D EOS DSLR

[merelygifted]

ESA - ‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

[without-ado]

Opposing tails of Comet Pons-Brooks l NASA APOD

[spacewonder19]

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

[traverse-our-universe]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks by Babak Tafreshi

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 17, 2024 // astrosymmetry

[xipteras]

Evening Symphony: Jupiter, Mercury, and the Comet 12P/Pons-Brook at Twilight. ☄️ Image by @xipteras